Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus

Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is one of the moderately sized secondary schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Mastery CS-Shoemaker Campus, with 722 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12.

Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus sits inside Mastery CS-Shoemaker Campus, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus logs that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 5% Native American, 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Philadelphia County as a whole is about 39% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.9%; this one delivers 21.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Philadelphia County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,953 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is one of 309 public schools in Philadelphia County (combined enrollment of about 182,005 students).

Heston Edward Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 16.3%.

Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus operates from a city-core location. Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mastery CS - Shoemaker Campus's enrollment has ticked down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 772 (now 722). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 95% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.